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141) Delight
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A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethan's mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is obviously lost and bewildered, and regularly wakes up screaming for his mum in the night. He begins to lash out at other kids at school and his behaviour becomes more volatile. When arrangements are...
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At a mere 15 years old, KC Ung's life was turning upside down overnight. In 1975, the Cambodian civil war that had been raging for years was now over, with the Khmer Rouge having seized victories one province at a time. What could have been a new era of peace was instead the beginning of the largest genocide in Asian history, claiming the lives of a quarter of the total Cambodian population. Families across the country were now thrown into a fight...
143) How to Survive Anything: From Animal Attacks to the End of the World (and Everything in Between)
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This New York Times bestselling guide covers essential skills and strategies for surviving any catastrophe-from natural disasters to zombies attacks.
How to Survive Anything covers situations ranging from the unexpected to the unthinkable, deftly balancing real-life survival know-how with wild scenarios that most likely won't ever happen. But, on the other hand, who would you rather have in your bunker? The guy who read up on killer robots or the...
144) Lunar
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Stranded and alone on the moon, Luna is running out of time … Bestselling author Chris Bradford crafts The Martian for teens in this gripping outer-space survival story. Luna loves living on the moon. She enjoys helping her father – a Moon Miner – on his search for precious minerals and rocks. But when a devastating meteor strike destroys their base, Luna is left stranded alone on the moon. With no shelter and few supplies, she must find a way...
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The New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything shares 500+ tricks for surviving any emergency with everyday items.
Fortune favors the prepared-and knowing how to innovate, improvise, and make do with the hundreds of survival hacks covered in this guide will prepare you for just about anything. Detailed advice and step-by-step illustrations show you how to handle natural disasters, wilderness mishaps, and total catastrophes with whatever...
146) Camp Sauvage
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Will a-t-il ce qu'il faut pour survivre sur la rivière ? Dans ce roman captivant pour jeunes adolescents, Will s'estime trop vieux pour aller au camp de vacances et planifie de s'enfuir.
Will est persuadé que ses parents ne veulent rien savoir de lui.
Quand il n'est pas à l'école, Will se retrouve seul et, l'été, ses parents l'envoient au camp de vacances. Mais il a maintenant quatorze ans et s'estime trop vieux pour y aller. Alors quand...
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A collection of stories and wisdom from the journey of a Christian woman who finds herself lost in adultery.
The story of Scarlett addresses the taboo topic of Christian women and adultery, giving those women who have been silenced by their past sexual sin, a voice. This bold adventure of an unsuspecting Southern girl next door helps women realize they should never say never. Christy Neal walks readers through the darkest moments of Scarlett's life,...
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As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather's writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston's army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were...
149) Freelance
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Relativity Media Llc
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Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other to make it out alive!
150) Long-Term Food Preservation: Meat, Dairy, Eggs, Dehydration, Canning, and Freezing Techniques for Su
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Are you worried about food scarcity and seeking practical methods to extend the shelf life of your groceries?Do you want to master the art of preserving meat, dairy, and eggs for long-term use?Introducing Long-Term Food Preservation: Meat, Dairy, Eggs, Dehydration, Canning, and Freezing Techniques for Sustained Food Quality, the go-to guide designed to empower you with comprehensive knowledge and actionable steps in the realm of food preservation.Why...
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Other books tell us how to live the good life-but you might have to win the lottery to do it. Making Home is about improving life with the real people around us and the resources we already have. While encouraging us to be more resilient in the face of hard times, author Sharon Astyk also points out the beauty, grace, and elegance that result, because getting the most out of everything we use is a way of transforming our lives into something much...
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Four hundred scenarios from all of the bestselling books in the series- with dozens of new entries- from being kicked by a zebra to breakup texts.
With more than ten million copies sold worldwide, the Worst-Case Scenario series has been preparing readers for dangers of all kinds for more than a decade. This handsome compendium is truly the ultimate guide for handling life's inevitable Worst-Case Scenarios, collecting-for the first time-hundreds of...
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Hard times aren't just coming, they are here already. The recent economic collapse has seen millions of North Americans move from the middle class to being poor, and from poor to hungry. At the same time, the idea of eating locally is shifting from being a fringe activity for those who can afford it to an essential element of getting by. But aside from the locavores and slow foodies, who really knows how to eat outside of the supermarket and out of...
154) The Deep End
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"It starts today. Your world is about to change."
Harley ignores the cryptic warning but soon learns the chilling message is absolutely true. When his motorcycle is stolen, he feels he's lost the one thing that connects him to his dad-and keeps his dad's memory alive. Harley believes he knows exactly who is responsible-and takes dangerously reckless steps to get his bike back.
Parker will do almost anything to help his friend-which is exactly...
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An unforgettable memoir about one woman's story of overcoming neglect in the U.S. foster-care system and finding her place in the world.
Drawing on her experience as one of society's abandoned children, Regina Louise tells how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish...
After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named Jeanne Kerr. For the first time in...
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This inspiring memoir recounts a man's harrowing journey from unpaid child labor in Haiti to a successful life in the United States.
African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society-the children of the poor-by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children...
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This intimate memoir offers a poignant, at times humorous account of Japanese American life in California before and after WWII.
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit.
As Umemoto wanders...
159) Night watching
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2024.
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" Straddling the line between psychological thriller and domestic horror, Sierra's auspicious debut immediately plunges readers headlong into its unnamed protagonist's waking nightmare . . . tense, emotionally resonant . . . Well-timed flashbacks add context and poignancy. Fiercely feminist and viscerally terrifying. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle...
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